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“Smartphone-based Digital Phenotyping” Speaker: Jukka-Pekka “JP” Onnela Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics Director of the Master’s Program in Health Data Science Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University. Event time: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor New Haven, CT 06511	“Probing Spectral Properties of Large Implicit Matrices” Event time: Wednesday, August 2, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor New Haven, CT 06511	*“Genomics of Social Networks”* Event time: Wednesday, July 12, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor New Haven, CT 06511	“Deep Learning, Interpretability, and Pathological Cancer Images” Speaker: Ehsan Kazemi Event time: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd Floor New Haven, CT 06511
The Yale Quantitative Blitz is a round-robin-style event presented by Yale faculty and hosted by the Yale Institute for Network Science. Faculty from Statistics and Data Science, Electrical Engineering, Network Science, Digital Humanities Lab, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Quantum Computing, and Computer Science will “blitz,” providing a glimpse of their current research and the latest developments in quantitative sciences at Yale. Event time: Saturday, October 7, 2017 - 9:00am to 10:30am Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor New Haven, CT 06511	*“Dynamics of emergency evacuation in experimental social networks”* Speaker: Hirokazu Shirado Event time: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 - 12:00pm Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd Floor New Haven, CT 06511	*“On the generalization of the Generalized Friendship paradox”* Event time: Wednesday, August 9, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor New Haven, CT 06511	“Influence in social systems” Speaker 1: Soheil Eshghi, Ph.D. Talk summary: I will be presenting two pieces of ongoing work on effectively using a limited influence budget to achieve social goals. Event time: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm Contact phone number: 203-436-4732 Contact email: emily.hau@yale.edu Event Type: Weekly Seminar Location: Yale Institute for Network Science See map 17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor New Haven, CT 06511
Best Paper Award at IEEE InfoComm 2017 for "Optimizing SDN Upgrades in ISP Networks" YINS May 4, 2017 Postdoctoral Fellow Konstantinos Poularakis won the Best Paper Award at IEEE InfoComm 2017 for his work in software defined network (SDN) optimization. The paper, “One Step at a Time: Optimizing SDN Upgrades in ISP Networks” was co-authored by former YINS postdoc Georgios Iosifidis and YINS in-house faculty Leandros Tassiulas. Dr. Poularakis’ work allows cloud-based services to be accessed much faster, allowing for empowered access to services for anyone, anytime, anywhere. Read the paper here.	Daniel Spielman elected to National Academy of Sciences YINS May 2, 2017 The National Academy of Sciences announced today the election of 84 new members and 21 foreign associates in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Those elected today bring the total number of active members to 2,290 and the total number of foreign associates to 475. Foreign associates are nonvoting members of the Academy, with citizenship outside the United States. YINS Co-Director Daniel A. Spielman was among those elected, as was YINS Affiliate Nicholas Read. For a complete list, you can read the National Academy of Science press release here.

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